Word: suspending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Sept. 1 article on the President's announcement that the U.S. would suspend nuclear testing appears to be somewhat biased...
...struggle against war provocations by the American imperialists." But simultaneously, Premier Chou En-lai announced that, "to settle the Sino-American dispute in the Taiwan area . . . the Chinese government is prepared to resume ambassador-level talks [with the U.S.]." Furthermore, added Chou, Peking had "voluntarily" decided to suspend bombardment of the offshore islands "to give Chiang Kai-shek's troops a chance for reflection...
Thirteen years and 113 announced nuclear and thermonuclear blasts after the first fateful mushroom cloud at Alamogordo, N. Mex., the U.S. committed itself to a grave decision. President Dwight Eisenhower, appearing before TV and newsreel cameras in Washington, announced that the U.S. was ready to suspend its nuclear-weapons tests for one year effective Oct. 31. The President attached two major conditions. He required that 1) the U.S.S.R. agree to begin political talks by Oct. 31, aimed at setting up a world network of posts equipped to detect nuclear explosions, presumably in Red China as well as the U.S.S.R...
...President continued with terms for the more distant future. The U.S., he said, was also ready to suspend tests on a year-to-year basis after Oct. 31, 1959, provided that 1) the world detection network is installed and working satisfactorily, and 2) progress is being made in U.S.-U.S.S.R. negotiations on disarmament, such as stoppage of nuclear-weapons production. Said Ike: "As the U.S. has frequently made clear, the suspension of testing is not in itself a measure of disarmament. An agreement in this respect is significant if it leads to other and more substantial agreements...
WINTER 1958. President Eisenhower and Presidential Science Adviser James Killian set up a panel of scientists to determine whether a worldwide net of seismographic, acoustic and other equipment could detect a violation of any U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement to suspend tests. Named to head the panel: Cornell University's Dr. Hans Bethe, an acknowledged expert in the detection field...